Female Novel
Chapter 585
Bailey took a deep breath and looked at him expectantly.
“Okay, go ahead. Why are you becoming more and more like a long-winded woman?”
Edmund laughed and forcibly pushed her back onto the chair. Sighing, he said, “If he had gone alone, Iwould have gone with him no matter what he said. But that's not the case. Your brother is with him, sorelax.”
Bailey breathed a sigh of relief, but before she could say anything, footsteps suddenly sounded outsidethe door.
In the next second, Gwendolyn led Steven and Waverly into the room.
“Bay, the Shurmers said they wanted to see you, so I brought them here.”
Bailey responded with a nod but didn't pay much attention to the couple. She picked up her fork andstarted eating without any expression.
Waverly looked a little embarrassed and stammered for a while before finally asking, “I heard you wereinvolved in a car accident. I came to see you. Are you okay?”
Bailey shrugged and said in a light tone, “My mother-in-law saved my life with her own, so now I'm hertrue daughter even if she didn't give birth to me. Did you come here late at night just to see me, Mrs.Shurmer? If that's the case, please leave. I'm an unlucky woman and don't deserve such an honor.”
Waverly pursed her lips while looking at Bailey's cold expression. Bailey looked very unfriendly, her
eyes devoid of any warmth. This made Waverly feel uncomfortable and upset.
Her husband was right; all their biological children had turned their backs on them.
“Although I don't agree with you coming back to the Shurmer family, we're still related by blood. I wasreally worried when I heard about your accident, so I came to see you in the middle of the night.”
Bailey raised her eyebrows and looked at her with a slight smile. “You're worried about me? Okay, thenagree to let me go back to the Shurmer family and announce to the world that Zoey is just a fosterdaughter, and I'm the real daughter. That way, you can show your sincerity. Otherwise, I'll treat you as astranger.”
Waverly struggled to contain her anger but couldn't help raising her voice after hearing Bailey's words.“Bailey, you...”
“If you didn't come with sincerity, then please leave, Mrs. Shurmer. Goodbye, and I won't bother to seeyou out.”
Waverly was speechless.
Inside a suite of a five-star hotel, Scarlett tightly held onto her phone, waiting for good news from Zoey.Unfortunately, she didn't receive any news from Zoey, only a call from Raiden.
As soon as the call connected, her brother's first words were, “Did you cause that major accident in thesuburbs of Hallsbay?” novelbin
Scarlett's fingers trembled, and the phone almost slipped from her palm.
“R-Raiden, what do you mean? How could I, Lady Scarlett of Chanaea, treat human life like trash?Don't accuse me without evidence.”
Raiden's cold laughter came from the other end of the line. “Okay, even if you don't admit it, that's fine.I hope it's not you. Otherwise, even the Fletcher family can't protect you. Five dead and twelve injured?Scarlett, even if the Fletcher family has superhuman powers, we can't cover up such a big issue. Goodluck to you.”
With that, he hung up the phone.
Scarlett's legs went weak, and she collapsed on the couch.
What should I do? I regret it! I really regret it. How could I have been so foolish as to plan such a majortraffic accident? Five dead and twelve injured? Even if the Fletcher family is at the pinnacle of power,they can't protect me.
What should I do? What should I do? If Bailey had died, I could still accept it, but now five lives are onmy shoulders while that woman is still alive and well. What's the point of everything I did?
A text message notification sounded from her phone.
She quickly picked it up and saw a message: The mission failed. All the spies I planted in the Saviorswere killed. Good luck to you.
The sender was a series of encrypted numbers.
D*mn Zoey! Did she send me a message with an unknown number to avoid being caught? And nowshe wants me to fend for myself? That b*tch!
“You want to escape? Don't think it'll be that easy. Even if I can't drag you down with me, I'll make yousick to your stomach.”
At the Saviors branch, the person in charge rushed into the lounge and said to Zayron, “Sir, they alltook their own lives by taking poison. There are no survivors or clues left behind.”
Zayron's expression turned grim.
He had hoped to pry open their mouths and get some useful information from them, but after trying formost of the night, he had nothing.
Zeke shook his head and said, “Investigate the entire branch and check out these people's socialcircles. See if we can find anything new.”
“Yes, sir.”
With that, Zeke stood up from the couch and said to Zayron, “Let's go back first. Don't rush it. We'll takethem down one by one, starting with Scarlett.”
“Okay.”
In a ward at the psychiatric hospital, Rhonda reached out and smashed everything on the bedside table
to pieces, then held her head and cried out in a hoarse voice, “Why am I not crazy anymore? I wantedto stay mad forever! How could you be so cruel and allow me to remember that disgusting and filthyexperience?”
The doctor next to her said to the nurse, “Tell Ms. Bailey that she has returned to normal and that thisdrug won't let her escape from her memories. She'll live in pain every day, reliving that experience overand over again.”